Lost ‘clickers’ from the D-Day Normandy landings are being sought to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the World War Two invasion. Birmingham manufacturer ACME Whistles made 7,000 devices in just six months for the soldiers but said “very few” originals have been seen since. Soldiers would use the clickers …
An art gallery in Florence has demanded the return of a painting stolen by Nazi troops in 1943 and now in the hands of a German family. Uffizi Gallery head Eike Schmidt said the German government had a “moral duty” to help bring the artwork Vase of Flowers back …
The last surviving fighter of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising of 1943 has died at the age of 94. Simcha Rotem, also known as Kazik, was one of the Jewish partisans who rose up against the Nazis when they began mass deportations from the Polish capital. Thousands died in the uprising …
The aircraft carrier USS Lexington went down in the 1942 Battle of the Coral Sea, with 216 lives lost. The wreck of a US aircraft carrier that was sunk during World War Two has been found off the coast of Australia. The USS Lexington was located at a depth of …
Ascensión Mendieta, a frail 91-year-old, was consoled by her friends and family at a funeral parlour in Madrid on Saturday as her father’s body lay in the next room, awaiting burial. Timoteo Mendieta was killed more than 75 years ago, thrown against a wall and shot at point-blank range by soldiers …
An international exhibition about Anne Frank had already toured over 20 schools across Croatia when it ran into trouble last month in the coastal city of Sibenik, spotlighting the nation’s struggle to resolve its dark World War Two past. The story of the Holocaust diarist and her death at age …
Almost all the lots at a controversial auction of Nazi memorabilia that included Herman Göring’s underpants were bought by a single mysterious bidder, it has emerged. Almost all the lots at a controversial auction of Nazi memorabilia that included Herman Göring’s underpants were bought by a single mysterious bidder, it …
Russian President Vladimir Putin stands smiling between George W. Bush and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder as the U.S. president reaches out to shake hands with Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. It was a photo-op that couldn’t be missed: the military parade in Moscow on May 9, 2005, marking the 60th anniversary …
(Reuters) – Lucija Rajner last saw her father, Vladislav, on November 14, 1941, through a barbed-wire fence at a concentration camp in Belgrade. That autumn, Rajner and her mother passed food, letters and bedding to him, until a guard told them he wouldn’t need such supplies anymore. Rajner never learned …
(Reuters) – The abattoir in this small town in western Poland has a special dormitory to house the more than 30 Jewish men designated by Israel’s chief rabbi to oversee the production of kosher beef there. Since the slaughterhouse received permission to export to Israel five years ago, thousands of …
(Reuters) – Seventy years after a World War Two air raid killed 1,500 in their working-class Rome district, San Lorenzo residents on Friday rued a European Union they said had brought peace, but not prosperity. Spending cuts and tax increases to lower the borrowing costs and debt of weaker euro …
(Reuters) – A rare Mercedes race car became the most expensive car ever sold at auction when an anonymous bidder bought it for 19.6 million pounds ($29.6 million) at a sale in Britain on Friday. The 1954 Mercedes-Benz W196 in which five-time Formula 1 world champion driver Juan Manuel Fangio …